Wiek Hijmans Electric Guitar (solo recital)

Wiek Hijmans has played the electric guitar since the age of eleven. His interest in both contemporary classical as well as in popular music gave him a task for life : integrating the electric guitar in the classical tradition, thus adding a new world of sounds to that tradition. Influences from jazz, rock and an attitude stemming from extensive experience as an improviser make Hijmans both as a performer and as a composer a typical exponent from the current state of music.
Wiek Hijmans plays as a soloist and in numerous project and ensembles, gives masterclasses, is co-artistic director of New York Amsterdam Arts Collective TONK, and co-directs the OUTPUT festival, the first international festival dedicated to the electric guitar in classical music.
This video I recorded on June 11. 2009, live from his performance with POW Ensemble at the auditorium of Centre Culturel Français de Bandung.

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[rollerbladingdude]

thats more as jazz....

[perplexedmoth]

well, the thing is I'm too stoned in an off-scale way right now. And just for you baby, I'm listening to some Mahavishnu Orch stuff, which makes the mood even aerial.

[perplexedmoth]

anyway, just omit the "off-scale" bullshit from the sentence.

[perplexedmoth]

indeed, what has gone through my mind while saying that? It was a pathetic meaningless mumbo jumbo, I agree.

[joehavishnu]

"off-scale jazz and and fusion"

you must really know what you are talking about!

[perplexedmoth]

well, this is indeed pathetic, although I'm a big fan of off-scale jazz and fusion.

[NERDFREAKINGPOWER]

i like it, kind of sounds like a very jazzy buckethead...